Gregory Patrick's Blog, page 5

The Show is Almost Over, Isn’t it?

I guess I should start thinking about my birthday…. We tend to have this long slide of holiday cheer around here this time of year. We move on from Christmas to New Year’s, then my birthday just days after (January 4th), then settle up somewhere around epiphany (January 6th). This year is a little different. […]

Phillip’s Advent Adventure

We’re scaling down Christmas this year. Instead of a big, fat, full of gifts day, we’ve been playing with little gifts throughout the season. I grew up in Europe. Christmas is nothing but a blessing of advent calendars, three or four of them if you can, ready to be opened and loved every single morning.  […]

The Secret Behind the Weathered Hand….

Growing old….as I hopefully should. These weathered hands don’t mind. They have crafted, they have knit, they have written. And with that, they have given others joy. These weathered old hands have done well….

I Won’t Be Walking By Anymore

For some reason we have a parade of homeless men that walk up and down Washington Street. On the west end is Lake Eola. I get it. That’s where they all spend the day. Here on the east end? I can’t figure out why they daily come walking by. (Angelic reminders?) Anyway, I sit here […]

Let the Universe Surprise You!

We have to start with the sad part before we get to the good part, so hang with 🙂 Kara and I have been friends for nearly 25 years now. She just lives down the street. We had a falling out a while back, maybe about a year ago. I don’t blame her (and I […]

Happy Thankschili!

So, I decided to shop for our Thanksgiving dinner this morning. Man was a I surprised. (Actually, I kinda wasn’t). I do all the shopping around here, so I’ve seen the prices of things sky rocket. Like eggs, for instance. I buy a LOT of eggs. Its a quick easy protein and you all know […]

Scribbling Thoughts

These long digits of mine have a tendency to pound at this keyboard, slamming down words like a pianist smashing the ivories….Dramatic! Long and loud! An opus every time! I had forgotten what it was like to hold a pen in my hand, to scribble things down on paper, even if it be nothing more […]

Socks and Friends

As I mentioned in my last post, things have been a little trying around here, but we’re doing our best to get our bearings. Although I’m agoraphobic, I do get lonely sometimes. I am not accustomed to Phillip being gone ten hours a day. You’d think that I would find that BRILLIANT! So much time […]

Back Up. Claws Out.

I am so sorry for my absence. I am so sorry I haven’t been able to speak, let alone write. Something is shifting. A lot of what is happening is good, but some of it has been bad. Phillip calls this period at work “the transition period,” where he has been gone for a while […]

A Bear for Cab Fare

Well, we seem to have hit a little snag in Phillip’s management training. George’s poor little truck broke down a week ago. So, Phillip and I have navigated bus routes to get him to work on the opposite end of town. It takes about an hour and a half from the time he leaves the […]